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Undersea neutrino observatory to be second-largest human structure |
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Monday, 19 December 2011 09:58 |
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An audacious project to construct a vast infrastructure housing a neutrino observatory at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea is being undertaken by a consortium of 40 institutes and universities
from ten European countries. The consortium claims that KM3NeT, as it is known, will "open a new window on the Universe," as its "several" cubic kilometer observatory detects high-energy neutrinos from violent sources in outer space such as gamma-ray bursts, colliding stars and supernovae...
Continue Reading Undersea neutrino observatory to be second-largest human structureSection: Science and EducationTags: Neutrino,
Observatory,
Space
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